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Laws are written to protect multibillion corporations and billionaires. Prove me wrong. If we truly lived in a sane society, companies with lax security and god awful security policies would be punished.
So if I leave my front door unlocked, I should go to jail when someone steals from me? What nonsense.
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This is downvoted, but the homepage really does say "hello i am maia arson crimew (it/she)". I'd feel uncomfortable referring to anyone as "it" though, as there are some connotations with that :-/
> the homepage really does say "hello i am maia arson crimew (it/she)". > I'd feel uncomfortable referring to anyone as "it" though In Five Children and It (published in 1902), the "It" of the title is a magical creature. However, one of the characters is a human baby who is always referred to with the pronoun "it". I glossed right over that reading the book as a child, but I found it pretty disturbing rereading as a…
While it's uncommon today (and I think uncommon even by the time that book was written), use of 'it' for babies was definitely A Thing at one point.
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Authoritarian acts are performed by governments that aren't specifically authoritarian regimes all the time.
Apropos of nothing, I also just really appreciate crimew.gay's aesthetic. This website is what me from 1993 thought a hacker's website would look like. A nod of respect to them for kickin' it old-school.
A webring! I'd completely forgotten that these were a thing.
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I think it's valid to argue that you shouldn't be able to put some of commas, quotes, and newlines inside fields at all. And comma versus semicolon. But that doesn't extend to using backslash escapes in something that's legitimately trying to be CSV. That's someone getting confused and implementing a mix of data formats, or trying to be clever and making an extended CSV format.
Every field is quoted. Every field is quote-escaped. That's all you need.
Apropos of nothing, I also just really appreciate crimew.gay's aesthetic. This website is what me from 1993 thought a hacker's website would look like. A nod of respect to them for kickin' it old-school.
And they were born in 1999. We are dealing with a unique mind here.
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I totally understand wanting to be respectful, but respect goes both ways. She needs to respect the fact that her odd pronouns are literally breaking the English language for people who want to use them.
I personally think that the ultimate end game for pronouns in English will be creations of new ones with no connotations (so easy to apply like names) that get incorporated into the language or more likely an eventual move to a single pronoun that applies to everyone. Chinese, for example, only differentiates in written form so would be an easy adjustment. They is every high schoolers preferred choice in essays befor…
This guy is a (hobbyist?) security researcher who responsibly alerts companies of vulnerabilities. However are his actions of downloading the no fly list and offering to share with journalists legal? Or does that cross into overreach and criminal activity?
> downloading the no fly list and offering to share (This is a genuine question) but where's the actual value in having this list? I'm afraid I regard it as yet another piece of security theatre. Full disclosure: my passport always fails to scan at the UK Border automated gates. I had a discussion this week with yet another border agent after getting another "seek assistance" message and having to queue for a manual…
I expected to read an article about actually owning an airline in 3 easy steps. :(